Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness — the ethical imperative follows directly from eschatological expectation. The question (hoios dei) inverts the false teachers' question: instead of doubting the promise, believers should ask how to live righteously in light of it. Lives of holiness (hagiasmō) and godliness (eusebia) represent the proper existential response to eschatology.

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